UN Human Rights expert visits Burma

Feb 15th, 2009

According to an AFP news report;

UN Human Rights expert Tomas Ojea Quintana arrived Saturday in Myanmar for a six-day visit to assess the development of human rights following his visit last summer.

Mr Quintana left for Karen State by helicopter early Sunday to meet with members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), a group of former Karen insurgents who switched sides in the early 1990s to fight the KNU.

The UN confirmed that Mr Quintana would also visit the notorious Insein prison in Yangon that holds hundreds of political activists, as well as the remote capital, Naypyidaw, during his stay, but was unlikely to meet senior generals. Mr Quintana’s visit is expected to pave the way for a possible visit later in the year by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon